Embracing Chaos: An Interactive Project Management Survival Guide
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The document titled 'Embracing Chaos: An Interactive Project Management Survival Guide' discusses the complexities and importance of project management, emphasizing that effective project managers possess strong emotional intelligence and leadership skills. It highlights the common misconceptions about project management roles and the significance of communication, empathy, and strategic thinking in achieving project success. It asserts that emotional competencies are crucial for superior job performance, outweighing technical skills and cognitive abilities.
Embracing Chaos: An Interactive Project Management Survival Guide
- 1. Embracing Chaos: An Interactive Project Management Survival Guide
- 4. PART I CTIVE INTERA is E N T I F F E R D
- 6. A DV E E R SIN SOF W AR TI T Our Forefathers G E R NE ET INT ING You T MAR K
- 7. WA T E You AG E N CY FALL AG I ER L The Process Wars
- 10. “Most engineers don’t know what a project manager does, and if they do, they usually don’t know what a good one looks like.” “Crap project managers have ruined the reputation of the gig.” Source:: http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2013/07/15/entropy_crushers.html
- 11. Project management is like air quality. If you can see it, it’s probably killing you. @nylons | @irishgirl Source: http://publichealthinchina.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/beijingairjpg.jpg
- 12. Project Management is a leadership role. “I'm trying hard to get this project management thing down but there is a hell of a lot of work in it. Thought its a small thing and now it seems that the project manager is holding down the fort on everything.” - a dude who read our book
- 13. PART II The MY N A T O ent A of an Excell CT P RO J E E R M A N AG
- 15. Strategic Thinking Live and breathe the work. Connect what with why. Know who, know when. @nylons | @irishgirl
- 16. Guidance Give meaning to tasks. Communicate effectively. Stay cool under pressure. @nylons | @irishgirl
- 18. Bravery Taking risks. Building consensus. Making mistakes.
- 19. PART II The MY N A T O ent A of an Excell Bravery Taking risks T RO J E C R P A N AG E M Motivation Leadership Strategic Thinking Connect what with why Emotional Intelligence Empathy, intuition, instinct Guidance Give meaning to the process
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- 21. “A number of empirical studies of on-the-job excellence have clearly and repeatedly established that emotional competencies —communication, interpersonal skills, selfcontrol, and so on — ‘play a far larger role in superior job performance than do cognitive abilities and technical expertise’.” Source: Unwritten Laws of Engineering: Revised and Updated Edition, by W.J. King, James G. Skakoon. Interior quote: Working with Emotional Intelligence, by Daniel Goleman